Konstantin Kisin
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Podcast Appearances
Yeah, we had the version of that in the UK, and they were BBC radio journalists.
I can't remember the guy's name, very famous journalist.
And basically, he was this legendary figure in music, because if you were a new band, you wanted to go on his radio station, because he would play.
If he played your song, there was a good chance that it would then go on and do something.
So there was a very famous, you know the song Teenage Kicks by the Undertones?
Right.
So he broke that band.
And one of the part of the reason they went so famous.
I can't believe I've forgotten his name.
I can picture him in my head is because he played it and went, that is the most perfect rock pop song.
That's the most perfect song I've ever heard.
John Peel.
There is DJ.
That's the most perfect song I've ever heard.
He then played it again.
which was completely unknown in BBC broadcast history.
The fact that you would play a song again is completely unheard of, but he played it twice, and as a result, it just ended up becoming this huge hit.
yeah that's crazy yeah and and it also shows the difference between then and now because teenage kicks the original lyric was i want to hold it well i want to hold it tight get teenage kicks right through the night and the record company was like you can't say that you've got to say her so the lyric is i want to hold her i want to hold her tight but it was originally a song about jacking off
It's unbelievable.
All right, we're good.